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Self-Hosting Logto: Modern Authentication Platform

Logto is a modern authentication platform. Beautiful sign-in UI, social logins, MFA, and user management — built for developers.

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What Is Logto?


Logto is a developer-friendly authentication platform. It provides sign-in, sign-up, and user management with a modern, beautiful interface.


Logto vs Auth0 vs Authentik


  • Logto: Best developer experience, beautiful UI, modern stack
  • Auth0: Enterprise standard, SaaS, expensive at scale
  • Authentik: Most self-hosting focused, visual flow builder

    • Features


    Sign-in Experience

  • Beautiful, customizable sign-in page
  • Social connectors (Google, GitHub, Apple, Discord, etc.)
  • Passwordless (email/SMS magic links)
  • Multi-factor authentication
  • Enterprise SSO (SAML, OIDC)

    • User Management

  • User profiles
  • Roles and permissions
  • Organizations (multi-tenancy)
  • User impersonation
  • Webhooks for user events

    • Developer Experience

  • SDKs: React, Next.js, Vue, Express, Python, Go, etc.
  • Management API
  • Machine-to-machine auth
  • Custom JWT claims
  • Custom token TTL

    • Compliance

  • GDPR-ready
  • User consent management
  • Data export
  • Account deletion

    • Use Cases


  • SaaS authentication
  • Internal tool access control
  • Customer identity management
  • API authentication

    • Deployment


    1. Deploy Logto on TinyPod

    2. Configure connectors (social, email)

    3. Create your application

    4. Integrate SDK


    Resources: 1 CPU, 512 MB RAM with PostgreSQL.


    Logto has the best developer experience of any self-hosted auth platform. The SDKs and documentation are excellent.